Tablet holder



Feb. 5 1924; 11,482,659

E. OSWALD TABLET HOLDER Filed June so. 1925 Edith OswaZd 61th): mug

Patented Feb. 5, 1924.

P A T E EDITH OSWALD, 0F INDEIENDENCE, IOWA.

TABLET HOLDER.

Application filed June 30,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDITH OSWALD, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tablet Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in holders for tablets and the like, and the object of my improvement is to supply a device which will not only be of simple construction and inexpensive, but will also serve to receive and releasably hold tablets or other similar objects, and which is provided with elastic means for releasably receiving and holding in a convenient position a pencil or other writing implement.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved device in use holding a tablet and also a pencil, and Fi 2 is a side elevation of the same.

My improved holding device is especially useful in hotels or other places for holding tablets of order slips or other blanks, while the pencil holder presents a received pencil to the user when needed and in a position to be immediately employed for writing purposes.

The numeral 1 denotes a backor baseplate of rigid material, substantially rectangular in contour, and having at its top an upwardly projecting ear or hanger 2 with nail-hole 3 for suspension purposes when desired.

The numeral 1 denotes a clamping-plate positioned upon the top part of the upper face of the base-plate 1 and has its upper transverse margin shaped with a scroll 5 which contacts with the top transverse margin of the latter plate. At either side of the medial ear 2 elastic metal clips 15 in the form of split cylinders are slipped over the scroll 5 and the upper edge of the baseplate 1 to resiliently secure them together and thus provide a resilient hinge for the plate 4.

The medial part of the plate 4 is transversely crimped at 6 with the trough directed toward the plate 1, and then transversely crimped again at 7 reversely to provide a clamping ridge and this ridge has formed on its under face a plurality of transversely alined small points or bosses 8 adapted to 1923. Serial No. 648,746.

grip the tablet 14 between them and the plate 1 and prevent displacement of the tablet.

The lower part of the clamping-plate i is bent upwardly at 9 so as to be disposed at more than a right angle relative to the base plate 1, and this part 9 has a medial hole 10 within which is fitted a short tubular elastic rubber sleeve 11 whose lower end has an annular fillet 12 which thus becomes a stop to prevent the sleeve being pushed upwardly through said hole. A pencil or other writing implement, as shown at 13, may be pushed from below through the sleeve 11 where it is releasably held by the elastic grip of the sleeve thereon. It will be ob-' served that the angle of the plate part 9 is such that the butt of the pencil is presented upwardly at aconvenient angle toward the user for ready grasp and removal, as in replacing it, and the pencil is always in sight and cannot become displaced by other than unusual force exerted upon it or purposely.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A device of the character described, comprising a base-plate, a clamping-plate positioned upon the upper part of the base plate, having a top marginal scroll and having its lower part shaped with a transverse ridge abutting upon the adjacent face of the base-plate, resilient securing means clamp ing said scroll upon said base-plate, and means upon the lower part of said clampingplate for receiving and holding releasably a writing implement.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a base-plate, a. clamping-plate resiliently hinged upon said base-plate, said clamping-plate having a transverse ridge opposed to the base-plate and having a marginal lip with an aperture therein, an elas tic sleeve mounted in said aperture and shaped at one end to engage said lip.

3. A device of the character described, comprising a base-plate, a clamping-plate resiliently connected thereto and having an upwardly directed apertured lip, and an elastic rubber tubular device mounted and secured in the aperture of said lip to releasably receive and elastically grasp an inserted writing instrument to position the implement toward the user in direct presentation,

Signed at Independence, Iowa, this 2nd day of June, 1923. I

EDITH OSWALD.

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